Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
Allow us, for a moment, to pat ourselves on the back. It may not be shaking Hollywood to its foundations, or causing endless Gauloise-fugged chitchat in the Cinematheque Française, but you may have noticed the Guardian film website has had bit of a wash and brush up. Not only do we now have a fetching, purple-tinted central block, but we've also created a whole bunch of fascinating new series to entertain you. Each day at 7.30am we're launching our movie bulletin, featuring the day's key news stories and what's coming up; then we have our new Why I love… feature (today; Human Traffic's title sequences) and – ulp – how things are shaping up for next year's Academy award race with our Oscar predictions 2014 blog.
All that, plus a weekly quiz, the Film on the box...
The big story
Allow us, for a moment, to pat ourselves on the back. It may not be shaking Hollywood to its foundations, or causing endless Gauloise-fugged chitchat in the Cinematheque Française, but you may have noticed the Guardian film website has had bit of a wash and brush up. Not only do we now have a fetching, purple-tinted central block, but we've also created a whole bunch of fascinating new series to entertain you. Each day at 7.30am we're launching our movie bulletin, featuring the day's key news stories and what's coming up; then we have our new Why I love… feature (today; Human Traffic's title sequences) and – ulp – how things are shaping up for next year's Academy award race with our Oscar predictions 2014 blog.
All that, plus a weekly quiz, the Film on the box...
- 8/15/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The top-line on the big news stories in cinema today – plus a preview of what's coming up on the site
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News headlines today
It's really hard out there to be pimp: Woody Allen prostitutes John Turturro to Sharon Stone in Fading Gigolo, one of a handful of new Toronto premieres unveiled yesterday.
Set phasers to portentous. Christopher Nolan has started shooting his space travel film, Interstellar.
Jennifer Garner wouldn't be surprised if Ben Affleck went into politics.
Neill Blomkamp's next project is a robot film called - ahem - Chappie.
Khan get no satisfaction: Star Trek fans have voted Into Darkness the weakest film in the whole Trek cinematic canon.
Breaking Bale: Christian "could get $50m" to play Batman in Man of Steel 2, while Bryan Cranston is apparently in the running for Lex Luthor.
And, holy moly, Joel Edgerton set to...
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News headlines today
It's really hard out there to be pimp: Woody Allen prostitutes John Turturro to Sharon Stone in Fading Gigolo, one of a handful of new Toronto premieres unveiled yesterday.
Set phasers to portentous. Christopher Nolan has started shooting his space travel film, Interstellar.
Jennifer Garner wouldn't be surprised if Ben Affleck went into politics.
Neill Blomkamp's next project is a robot film called - ahem - Chappie.
Khan get no satisfaction: Star Trek fans have voted Into Darkness the weakest film in the whole Trek cinematic canon.
Breaking Bale: Christian "could get $50m" to play Batman in Man of Steel 2, while Bryan Cranston is apparently in the running for Lex Luthor.
And, holy moly, Joel Edgerton set to...
- 8/14/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
The top-line on the big news stories in cinema today – plus a preview of what's coming up on the site
News headlines today
Let's kick off with a not-quite-news story: Bruce Willis has revealed that he's a bit bored with doing action films but he does quite like the cash.
Vin Diesel has the voice of an 80-year-old Broadway roué, which makes him inspired casting to play a talking tree in the new Guardians of the Galaxy film.
More forestry news: Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep are reportedly up for parts in Rob Marshall's movie of the Sondheim musical Into the Woods.
Pina-collaborator: Charlotte Gainsbourg is set to join the cast of Wim Wenders' new 3D drama, Everything Will Be Fine, starring James Franco.
Ashton Kutcher has been giving great quote on playing Steve Jobs.
Remember when Mark Wahlberg went on Graham Norton, appeared drunk, seemed to annoy Sarah Silverman,...
News headlines today
Let's kick off with a not-quite-news story: Bruce Willis has revealed that he's a bit bored with doing action films but he does quite like the cash.
Vin Diesel has the voice of an 80-year-old Broadway roué, which makes him inspired casting to play a talking tree in the new Guardians of the Galaxy film.
More forestry news: Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep are reportedly up for parts in Rob Marshall's movie of the Sondheim musical Into the Woods.
Pina-collaborator: Charlotte Gainsbourg is set to join the cast of Wim Wenders' new 3D drama, Everything Will Be Fine, starring James Franco.
Ashton Kutcher has been giving great quote on playing Steve Jobs.
Remember when Mark Wahlberg went on Graham Norton, appeared drunk, seemed to annoy Sarah Silverman,...
- 8/13/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Hattie Jacques, the young lodger, and poor John Le Mesurier – what a Carry On
Mary Portas: Secret Shopper - were we left short-changed?
What do you do when you walk into your own bedroom to find your wife in the sack with the lodger? Well, obviously you pull him off (no, not like that!), beat the crap out of him and toss him out into the street, whimpering and naked. Then you storm out, find someone younger and more attractive than your wife, and jump into bed with her, in order to restore some self-esteem.
Poor John Le Mesurier, played by Robert Bathurst in Hattie (BBC4), does pretty much the opposite. "Oh, I'm terribly sorry," he stammers, when he finds his wife Hattie Jacques Carrying On with her handsome young driver. He probably knew about it already, but had been trying – like a child with his eyes squeezed tightly...
Mary Portas: Secret Shopper - were we left short-changed?
What do you do when you walk into your own bedroom to find your wife in the sack with the lodger? Well, obviously you pull him off (no, not like that!), beat the crap out of him and toss him out into the street, whimpering and naked. Then you storm out, find someone younger and more attractive than your wife, and jump into bed with her, in order to restore some self-esteem.
Poor John Le Mesurier, played by Robert Bathurst in Hattie (BBC4), does pretty much the opposite. "Oh, I'm terribly sorry," he stammers, when he finds his wife Hattie Jacques Carrying On with her handsome young driver. He probably knew about it already, but had been trying – like a child with his eyes squeezed tightly...
- 1/20/2011
- by Sam Wollaston
- The Guardian - Film News
Nostalgic retellings of the lives of Tony Hancock, Kenneth Williams, and Eric & Ernie have been ratings winners, but fictionalised accounts can land the Beeb in hot water
Ooh, I say. How's the harness?" We're four minutes and 58 seconds into BBC4's Hattie and the biopic cliche klaxon is primed to emit its first parp of distress. Plonked amid the bustle of a busy panto rehearsal, Eric Sykes (played, somewhat disconcertingly, by Graham Fellows) winces in sympathy as co-star Hattie Jacques (Ruth "Nessa" Jones), squeezes her fairy princess-costumed frame into some manner of hoist. Mugging gamely ("Lucky I'm not planning on having any more children …") Jacques is hoisted swiftly over the empty stage, her matronly limbs swishing in time to the soundtrack's plinky-twinkly piano. Then, inevitably – vzzzzznnng! – the mechanism fizzles to a halt. As offscreen lackeys scramble with levers and pulleys, Jacques is left to dangle pinkly in mid-air, a vision...
Ooh, I say. How's the harness?" We're four minutes and 58 seconds into BBC4's Hattie and the biopic cliche klaxon is primed to emit its first parp of distress. Plonked amid the bustle of a busy panto rehearsal, Eric Sykes (played, somewhat disconcertingly, by Graham Fellows) winces in sympathy as co-star Hattie Jacques (Ruth "Nessa" Jones), squeezes her fairy princess-costumed frame into some manner of hoist. Mugging gamely ("Lucky I'm not planning on having any more children …") Jacques is hoisted swiftly over the empty stage, her matronly limbs swishing in time to the soundtrack's plinky-twinkly piano. Then, inevitably – vzzzzznnng! – the mechanism fizzles to a halt. As offscreen lackeys scramble with levers and pulleys, Jacques is left to dangle pinkly in mid-air, a vision...
- 1/15/2011
- by Sarah Dempster
- The Guardian - Film News
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